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Monday Apr 30, 2007 #
Orienteering 49:24 [3] *** 7.3 km (6:46 / km)
23c shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
Ukraine Training Camp Day 1 PM
After getting up bright and early in the morning, I arrived in Kiev (Kyiv? Kiiv?) together with Rob, Julian, Shep, Troy, and the Australian team coach Brett Weihart for a week of training in WOC-relevant terrain and experiencing the phenomenon that is post-Soviet Ukraine. The goal of the camp was not so much to run up a ton of hours, but rather to run on many different maps and get an idea of what racing at WOC might feel like. For the whole week, we lived in a hotel on the Western edge of Kiev, complete with eggs and mystery dumplings for breakfast, as well as a wide selection of hookers advertising their goods and services at affordable prices just a few steps away from the hotel.
For our first training, we ran around a course on Dubni, a long-and-relay-relevant map, at an easy pace and mostly as a group. The forest was fast and runnable, with a lot of paths and some steep, but not very high, gullies to make for interesting route choices. Additionally, the forest featured a large variety of homeless dogs and puppies, as well as dozens of campfires started by the intrepid natives right in the middle of the woods.
After getting up bright and early in the morning, I arrived in Kiev (Kyiv? Kiiv?) together with Rob, Julian, Shep, Troy, and the Australian team coach Brett Weihart for a week of training in WOC-relevant terrain and experiencing the phenomenon that is post-Soviet Ukraine. The goal of the camp was not so much to run up a ton of hours, but rather to run on many different maps and get an idea of what racing at WOC might feel like. For the whole week, we lived in a hotel on the Western edge of Kiev, complete with eggs and mystery dumplings for breakfast, as well as a wide selection of hookers advertising their goods and services at affordable prices just a few steps away from the hotel.
For our first training, we ran around a course on Dubni, a long-and-relay-relevant map, at an easy pace and mostly as a group. The forest was fast and runnable, with a lot of paths and some steep, but not very high, gullies to make for interesting route choices. Additionally, the forest featured a large variety of homeless dogs and puppies, as well as dozens of campfires started by the intrepid natives right in the middle of the woods.